Feb
27
2008
Bob Diforio of D4EO Literary Agency is seeking a lawyer or someone with extensive training in employment law to write:
The Manager’s Pocket Legal Guide to the Workplace
For a trade book publisher.
Brief description:
As the workforce and workplace change, so too does the myriad of laws that govern their conduct. Thousands upon thousands of statues—both federal and state—are on the books to tell employers and employees what they can and can’t do or say on the job.
This book is a handy guide for managers who want quick reference to some of the most basic legal issues that arise every day at work.
- Can you ask a prospective employee if he’s married?
- Can you compliment an employee on her looks or dress?
- Can you deny an employee’s request for time off to celebrate his religious holidays?
- Can an employee charge sexual harassment even if the behavior in question is not directed at her?
This book aims to give down-and-dirty answers to these and other questions. It’s the well-thumbed book every middle manager should have on his or her desk.
SPECS
Trade paper
Category: Adams Business
Price: $9.95
Trim: 5 ½ x 7 ½
Page count: 256
Word count: 50,000
The publisher pays an Advance plus earned royalties.
Please contact Bob Diforio, D4EO Literary Agency, bob@d4eo.com if interested.
D4EO negotiates the contract after the publisher selects the most appropriate candidate and receives a 15% commission on all income earned, paid by the author.
Feb
27
2008
Bob Diforio of D4EO Literary Agency is seeking a businessman/woman author to write:
Managing Generation Me
How to Get Great Performance From Your Twenty-Something Employees for a trade book publishing house.
Brief description:
Generation Y, the 70 million people born between 1977 and 2002, represents a unique challenge to managers, as they enter a workforce that includes both Boomers and Gen Xers. Gen Ys, among other things:
- Work their work schedules to accommodate their personal lives
- Crave constant reinforcement and feedback from supervisors
- Are far more tech-savvy than previous generations
- Expect to make an impact on their workplace from Day One
- Are masters of multitasking, and don’t want to be tied down to an office environment
- Expect to remain in one job for only about three years (if that) before moving on
The book is to be written for mid-level managers and HR managers, will offer practical suggestions for how to minimize and overcome conflicts between different generations of workers and how to adapt workplace practices to the needs of Gen Y workers so as to gain the benefits of their skills, energy, knowledge, and enthusiasm. It will also make it more possible for businesses to retain these workers for a longer period, ensuring greater continuity in the workplace and therefore greater cost savings.The author should have hands on experience managing “Generation Me” employees.
SPECS
Trade paper
Category: Business
Price: $14.95
Trim: 6 x 9
Page count: 288
Word count: 75,000
The publisher pays an Advance vs. Earned Royalties.
Contact Bob Diforio, D4EO Literary Agency, bob@d4eo.com
As agent, D4EO, negotiates the contract and receives 15% of the advance and earned royalties from the author selected by the publisher.
Feb
27
2008
Bob Diforio of D4EO Literary Agency is seeking a for a psychiatrist or psychologist, an expert in bipolar disorder, to write (or work with a writer to write) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Bipolar Disorder.
Ideally, the publisher would like the expert to be a psychiatrist or psychologist whose primary experience is hands on, seeing lots of patients, as opposed to someone whose experience is primarily involved with research and teaching.
The publisher has been successful with The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Type 2 Diabetes and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fibromyalgia and wishes to expand their series into the area of mental health.The publisher will ask selected candidates to provide a proposed Table of Contents for the work in CIG format (guidelines will be provided) and the publisher will then choose the best candidate from the proposals submitted.
D4EO Literary Agency will negotiate the publishing agreement and the agency commission is 15% of all receipts [advances and earned royalties] paid by the publisher to the agent for disbursement to the author.
My contact information is:
Robert G. Diforio (Bob)
D4EO Literary Agency
d4eo@optonline.net
203-544-7180
Preferred contact method is e-mail.
Feb
27
2008
Lynn Price from Behler Publications recently wrote:
“Not only is vanity publication a huge waste of financial resources, it destroys the author’s potential. How? The author is basically damaged goods now because the book is already on the market and has wormed its way through all the online stores and databases.”
Read the rest of Price’s entry here.
Feb
26
2008
I’ve mentioned before that I’m new to fiction writing, but am an avid reader. There are at least six writers I know that never read or read so little that it hardly qualifies as reading. I find that interesting - wannabe novelists who don’t read but expect (wants) the public to read their published books.
Some of them claim they don’t have time to read. Um, yes you do. You just decide to do other things with your time. Some claim they hate to read. What? You hate to read and you want others to invest their time and money in your book. Shameful. Really. It is.
There’s one thing I’ve noticed between readers and nonreaders who write. Readers are better storytellers and nonreaders have the mechanics of writing down (This is a general observation I’ve made as a beta and WIP reader).
Click HERE for more random thoughts about writing
Feb
25
2008
One of my blog visitors won the Valentine’s Day contest I mentioned here. This just thrills me to no end. As much fun as it is to just write about myself (smile), I sincerely want this blog to help other writers succeed.
Read the winning entry here.
Feb
25
2008
Last week I realized that I have three works in progress – Mija, The Devil’s Playground, and Thirty Days to Justice. I started fiction writing in August and can’t help but notice how much I have written. Each story is in a different phase. The draft that is closest to completion is Thirty Days to Justice. As I write Mija, my mind is racing on how I can rewrite portions of Thirty Days.
Thirty Days falls into the commercial fiction category. I never thought that I would try my hand at writing commercial fiction. I’m not sure how I feel about that yet.
Click HERE for more information on Mija
Click HERE for more information on The Devil’s Playground
Click HERE for more information on Thirty Days to Justice